Alumni in Residence with Reginald Brown J.D. ’96 of Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Thursday, September 25, 2025, from 8:00 a.m.- 10:00 a.m. EST

The Alumni in Residence program connects current HLS students with accomplished HLS alumni for one-on-one career mentoring and advice. You’re invited to meet with Reginald “Reg” Brown J.D. ’96 during their virtual office hours. Sign up for a 20-minute Zoom appointment.

Kirkland & Ellis partner Reginald “Reg” Brown provides investigations-related guidance, strategic counsel and crisis management assistance to a broad range of companies and senior executives confronting challenges and opportunities at the intersection of government, law, media and public policy. Reg is Chambers Band One rated in both Crisis Management and Congressional Investigations and has assisted leading institutions and high-profile individual clients with more than one hundred and fifty congressional inquiries, as well as numerous federal, state and global government investigations and crisis avoidance and mitigation matters.

Reg also leads teams of lawyers responding to some of the most challenging Department of Justice (DOJ), State Attorneys General and other regulatory or enforcement matters. Many of his clients are among the world’s most prominent banks, hedge funds, private equity and venture firms, energy companies, government contractors, healthcare institutions, technology firms, and Universities as well as CEOs and high-ranking public officials. Reg has also assisted prospective and incumbent high-level public officials in connection with complex ethics agreements and governmental controversies.

Reg previously served in the White House Counsel’s office under President George W. Bush, where he was the White House’s principal legal liaison to the Departments of Treasury and Housing and Urban Development. Reg also served as a counselor for the White House Office of Political Affairs, Presidential Personnel Office and the National Economic Council. Reg previously served as Deputy General Counsel to Florida Governor Jeb Bush, Special Assistant to the CEO of Nationwide Insurance, and as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Federated States of Micronesia.

Reg is an honors graduate of Yale and Harvard Law School. He serves on the nonprofit boards of the George W. Bush Presidential Center, the Property and Environment Research Center and the Foundation for Excellence in Education. Reg also serves on the board of Blackstone, the world’s largest private equity firm.